Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Exploring the Aliens vs. Predator Benchmark - 3D Graphics, Audio & HDTV: "Long before Ridley Scott and James Cameron were respectively playing it safe with Russell Crowe's Robin Hood and Avatar, they were giving us nightmares with their outer-space tales about certain extraterrestrial parasites. Alien and its sequel, Aliens, still stand out today for their devotion to dimly lit creepiness, giving you the impression in almost every frame that certain doom lay within every shadow. If we never found Predator quite as unsettling, it was still a solid alien-action flick back in the days before Arnold Schwarzenegger found himself grappling an even more terrifying enemy: California's finances."